Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Just before noon the hospital calls to tell him that an obstetrical patient is in the last stages of labor. Bui hurries to his 1975 Ford Granada for a trip he sometimes has to make four times a day (half an hour each way). He speeds toward Lake Village, chain-smoking Vantage 100s, but when he reaches the town, he is too late. Barbara Jones is already lying on the delivery table smiling at her newborn girl, her first baby in 13 years...
Whatever happens to other sales, retailers and manufacturers happily agree that cosmetics will boom. Perfumes, bath oils, makeup kits and the like are always among the most popular gifts. Besides, says Eve Levinson, vice president of the California-based Broadway chain of 47 department stores: "There is this tremendous interest in self-gratification and ego satisfaction, which heightens demand...
Brown said he had asked the management of Allied Stores if they know of the problem. "I found the company to be very conversant with the situation," he said, adding that the chain was "considering its posture" in regard to the boycott...
...whole thing would be laughable if Devo didn't sound so sincere. In their psychotic way, they do, unlike so many of the already-stereotyped razor-and-chain punks. But the system that governs the way popular music gets distributed in America has already latched onto the most unpleasant, alienated side of Devo in a futile and self-defeating shot at record sales through novelty. The band's appearance on NBC's Saturday Night Live only gave the folks in Peoria a superficial look at Devo, and probably left them shaking their heads at the decadence of today's wasted...
This season the holiday exotica that can be ordered by mail are more extravagant than ever. Neiman-Marcus, the tony Texas chain, has sent the 350,000 customers on its nationwide mailing list a batch of Christmas gift suggestions that range from monogrammed "passports" for pet dogs or cats ($18) to an edible Monopoly set made of several kinds of chocolate ($600), and a Wooton desk that once belonged to Queen Victoria ($150,000). In Manhattan, trendy Bloomingdale's is countering with the perfect gift for the aspiring Truman Capote for $100,000 the store will arrange a holiday...